July 1st, 2008

Episode 80 Shownotes

Sorry about the lack of shownotes for the last few episodes, gentle listeners, our proverbial dog ate our homework…

And now, back to the present. This week on the catholicunderground.com…

Josh & Fr. Chris relive the SQPN New Media Celebration.

June 29, 2008 -> June 29, 2009 is the Year of St. Paul.

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The Backchat Weavel is still on vacation in the sunny Gobi Desert and so we discuss another question from the RCIA: How much of the Catholic Faith do I need to believe to be considered a good Catholic?

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Fr. Ryan | Posted in shownotes | 3 Comments »

  • http://catholicboard.com Carson Weber

    Y’all forgot to mention that PB16 is celebrating the Year of St. Paul because of Paul’s devotion to Scripture (hence, the Synodal gathering in October).

  • http://catholicboard.com Carson Weber

    Josh, the quote you were referring to in this episode is from John Henry Cardinal Newman, and it’s included in the Catechism, paragraph 157:

    “Faith is certain. It is more certain than all human knowledge because it is founded on the very word of God who cannot lie. To be sure, revealed truths can seem obscure to human reason and experience, but ‘the certainty that the divine light gives is greater than that which the light of natural reason gives.’ [31] ‘Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.’ [32]”

    [31] St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II,171,5,obj.3.
    [32] John Henry Cardinal Newman, Apologia pro vita sua (London: Longman, 1878) 239.

    Faith precludes doubt.

  • http://catholicboard.com Carson Weber

    Fr. Thomas Dubay, SM does a great job in his 1985 work, “Faith and Certitude” (Ignatius Press) discussing the difference between a difficulty and a doubt. Scientists have innumerable difficulties with how light can simultaneously be both wave and particle, but that doesn’t cause them to doubt light. Likewise, we may have innumerable difficulties with how God could become incarnate, or the nature of the resurrection, but those difficulties don’t bring us to doubt those certitudes. :)